The Justice Department filed an immediate appeal in the case of Daniel Lewis Lee and other death row inmates challenging the administration's new lethal injection protocol.
in court that another staff member at the federal prison facility where the executions were set to take place, FCI Terre Haute, had tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
In a separate case that Lee filed trying to challenge his underlying conviction based on arguments that his former lawyers had been ineffective, the 7th Circuit issued anrejecting that effort. Lee had unsuccessfully tried to raise arguments about his lawyers' handling of his case in the past, and the court ruled that he couldn't relitigate that issue now.
It's been a year since Attorney General Bill Barr announced that the Trump administration planned to resume federal executions — the US government last executed someone in 2003. Chutkan had previously halted the executions while the inmates challenged the new, single-drug lethal injection protocol announced by the administration.
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